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Unfortunately no. The trays are too short to reach the new holes. But Fractal does have adapters they’ll send for free as long as I cover shipping so now that the parity rebuild is over I can power it down and flip it over so I can get the serial number for the case and start that process. All is not lost at least! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Well, I got a 10TB drive to try out in my old box. I haven't started the build on the new one just yet. And guess what, the darn drive trays for my case (Fractal Define R4) don't have proper screw offsets for it! So I hooked it up temporarily to see if the BIOS in the MSI board could at least recognize it and it DID. So at least I have that going for me. I have an email out to Fractal Design to see if they happen to have drive trays that work with that case. If not, I'll have to get another case most likely which kind of sucks. Especially since I don't know 100% if the drives going to work or not since all I have is BIOS confirmation. Not how I wanted this test to go. My other problem is, since I don't have any confirmation if the drive is good or not and it looks like it will be a few more weeks before I can start the new build, what the heck do I do with the drive? Hold on to it for the build and hope it's not DOA or return it?

Yeah, the 50% cap thing, I had built the server to also act as backup for my several Macs. Problem was, well, it never really worked without a hitch. And I grew tired of messing with it so connected raid stayed in place. As far as a Plex server if it doesn’t play nice in a docker then I just leave it running on my Mac Mini using the unRAID server for storage. And I personal note, I don’t play nice with Windows these days. I gave it 10 a serious go not long ago and had to go back to Mac. Now if all I were doing with Windows was Plex then maybe I could make that work. [emoji3] Thanks for the feedback folks. I have a better idea of where to go from here. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Hi folks. I’ve had an unRAID server running since 2014 as a backup for my media without much fuss, but I’ve decided to go in a different direction now and need advice. My current server is an Intel i3 Haswell build, unRAID 6+, 5 4TB drives, and a 120GB SSD as cache. As it sits it’s at almost 50% capacity on the drives. What I’m wanting to do now is to go 1 to 1 rips of all my media, BRay and DVD using MakeMKV. For just the BR portion we’re talking at least 6TB needed, and I can’t even guess on the DVD since I have about 500 and am slowly replacing what I can with BR. And I want whatever box it’s on to be able to rip using multiple instances of MakeMKV and be a Plex server in the end. Since my current server is a backup to a raid box connected to a Mac Mini serving both as Plex server and client, I could technically start the process on the current server. But since it’s my backup it gives me a bit of pause. There’s room and power enough to add 3 more 4TB drives (that’s the max compatibility on my MB apparently), and I can still find a 4th gen i7 to beef up the processor, but it isn’t exactly cheap. And then I’d still need to add another SATA card so I could add some BR drives. And then I’d be maxed out with no more room to go. Oh and memory is maxed at 16GB. My other option is to just build another unRAID server with more memory, larger drives, better CPU and start fresh. I’d probably go AMD Ryzen with a processor that has graphics support like the i3 cause I don’t need any more graphics support than that since it’s just Plex and MakeMKV that I’ll be using. And a few other dockers that matter. [emoji4] I could also raid my current server, replacing MB, CPU, PS, and memory while leaving the drives intact plus add more larger ones and slowly start replacing content. That’s providing I could do all that without a complete FUBAR situation. But again, right now that box is my only backup to what I currently have and it’s not I’ll be able rip everything overnight. I’m leaning toward a new build so I could at least have more of a future with it than the current system. However the current box has not failed yet and I could probably end up still using it as backup providing I can match capacity. So what do you guys think? I haven’t had to pop in here much lately, but I think thats about to change! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Apparently I can’t backup per disk. Trying to create a path in the setup breaks it completely. Back way I had it working now!

Last stupid question. Now that I found the mount and selected it, all my drives are spun up. Will they all stay up for as long as it takes to back up or will unused drives spin down? Cause if they’re for no to stay up I don’t think it’s going to be a good idea to backup 7TB online. I know it’s going to take quite a while. Or or should I be backing this up at the disk level instead of one huge share? Honestly not sure.

Wow. I feel like an idiot. I didn’t even notice the scroll bar on directory listing. Thanks for that. All good now.

I just installed this so I can backup my media, but can’t seem to see my media directory in the GUI. I see the root contents and directories, but nothing else. I have /storage mapped I the app to /mnt/user/Media, but I don’t see it in the GUI either. What am I doing wrong here? and I have successfully backed up flash and config so I know that’s working at least.

Great. Thanks sir. Should have asked BEFORE trying this!

No, I wasn't sure. That's just what was showing after this happened. I did what you said and it came right up! And it's XFS. No idea why it changed to btfrs when I tried to add the second drive though. And just so I'm clear, adding a second drive does NOT increase cache capacity so if that's what I'm after I should just replace the current one. Yes?

At this point should I just say the heck with it and use the newly added drive which is 1TB as cache and copy over my backup on to it?

Added. tower-diagnostics-20170825-1420.zip

Great. I guess I failed this task miserably!

Yes

I have a a spare 7200RPM HD that has barely been used so I thought I'd add it to my array as a second cache drive to increase the cache capacity (only have a 120GB SSD now). Installed it and booted back up and everything seemed fine. That was until I added a slot on the cache drive page and assigned the drive to it. As soon as I did this I got an error message from "fix common problems" and the original drive has been unmountable. I tried to do a file system check in maintenance mode and it fails without doing anything. I get this: No valid Btrfs found on /dev/sdd1 Couldn't open file system But what's strange is that the current cache drive is showing as "sdd" and not "sdd1" on the cache drive page. So is this the problem? If so how do I fix that? And if it isn't the problem, can I fix this without having to reformat? If I do have to reformat it won't be the end of the world. I actually have a backup of the cache drive app data and docker. I just don't understand what the heck happened. Can I not add a second cache drive??

That plugin did the trick. Thanks man.

Thanks Squid. In this case, all the files were manually copied over from the Mac to unRAID OR by using btsync (which I no longer use to do issues). But I'll look at what you suggested as soon as I can. Not sure it's good idea to do anything with files/permissions while there's a massive copy operation going.

I had a massive failure on an external RAID array I use hooked up to my Mac Mini (Media server), but luckily I had everything mirrored on my unRAID server so after a few days of copying crap back over I should be good to go. Now the problem. When I went to copy directories from unRAID via the Mac using Finder, I got a permissions error popup about one of the items. I chose skip so I could see what the heck it was complaining about and it was the TV directory. I telnetted into unRAID and looked at all the permisions and it looks like everything is right with "nobody users". Of course that's just at the top level. No idea if maybe something is amiss further in than that. And I don't know if this is actually the problem anyway. I went ahead and started the copy operation omitting that directory so that's going to take quite a while to get over. I don't want to start another operation while it's going on so in the meantime maybe someone can give me some ideas on what to do once this part is done? Like maybe a permissions repair or something? Honestly unsure cause I was always able to access that directory from my Mac to copy to it.

So I installed that plugin and turned it on. Now all my drives are spun up. How is this supposed to help if all the drives are spun up?

I would rather have all disks spun down when they are not actively being used. That's kind of the point to unRAID anyway! That said, I have one disk that is purposely spun up all the time since it's a target for Crashplan and other routine backups. Other than that, all disks should be spun down unless being used or are in the time window set before spin down.

Lately I've noticed that every morning one of my drives is spun up and I have no idea why. I don't have anything accessing this particular drive unless Mover is running and that runs super early in the morning so by now that drive shouldn't be up. All I see in the logs are when the drive spins down so I have no idea what keeps it up. It will eventually spin down though. Anybody care to help me figure this out? unRAID v. 6.3.2

I've been using cache_dirs for some time now and thought it was working properly until today. I went to pull up my main media directory which houses pretty much everything and Windows Explorer just hung there for a few seconds before showing the directory at the top level. I had unRAID up in the browser and sure enough all 4 of my drives spun up just to get a listing. On unRAID 6.3.2 and cache_dirs 2.1.1. I don't see anything in the logs to indicate a problem. Anyone care to shed some light? Settings attached.

The auto start problem has been going on a while as you can see several people posting on it in the support thread. That isn't affecting all people using it though, only a subset. The other problem, related or not, has been going on since I installed it the first time just like the auto start problem. I opened a ticket on Github hoping to get the developers attention, but so far nothing - just like in the support thread. I haven't seen a post from him in a long while so I may be SOL.

Sorry to double post, but I'm not getting any assistance in the docker container support thread. My Crashplan docker continues to crash randomly, about a week or so, and I have no idea what it's complaining about or why it's crashing. This is what pops in the log when it happens: *** Shutting down runit daemon (PID 22)... XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":1" after 2120 requests (2120 known processed) with 0 events remaining. ./run: line 20: 39 Killed $JAVACOMMON $SRV_JAVA_OPTS -classpath "$TARGETDIR/lib/com.backup42.desktop.jar:$TARGETDIR/lang" com.backup42.service.CPService > /config/log/engine_output.log 2> /config/log/engine_error.log Unfortunately if I go and look for that engine_error log it mentions it's completely blank so this is all I have unless someone can point me in another direction. I also have a problem with this docker and autostart - as in it can't for whatever reason. Also asked in the support thread and got nothing. This is that error, in case somehow it's all related. ERROR: openbox-xdg-autostart requires PyXDG to be installed Not really sure why it's complaining about that. It's not like I have an option to install it.

Hello????? Is anyone out there? This is still happening. *** Shutting down runit daemon (PID 22)... XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":1" after 2120 requests (2120 known processed) with 0 events remaining. ./run: line 20: 39 Killed $JAVACOMMON $SRV_JAVA_OPTS -classpath "$TARGETDIR/lib/com.backup42.desktop.jar:$TARGETDIR/lang" com.backup42.service.CPService > /config/log/engine_output.log 2> /config/log/engine_error.log Is the developer anywhere around????